Authorities are now investigating the involvement of underground counterfeit criminals on the alleged suicide of a 25-year-old Chinese factory worker who was accused of stealing prototypes of heavily guarded Apple iPhone, which were now, reported missing. Police earlier found the lifeless body of Sun Danyong, a contracted worker for Foxconn International in Dongguan, inside his apartment. However, the investigators failed to recover the 16 prototype iPhones, leading to the suspicion that a notorious counterfeit gang in China was involved. Foxconn, a Taiwanese company, said that... 

Microsoft Corp. immediately issued emergency patches for its popular Windows OS after their researchers found an alley that could bypass without being detected the security mechanism in the browser of the Internet Explorer. In a statement, Microsoft researchers David Dewey, Ryan Smith, and Mark Dowd said that they will demonstrate the exact way to bypass the “kill-bit” security mechanism during their talk at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday. The “Kill-bit” Security mechanism of the Internet Explorer is used to disable any bogus ActiveX controls.... 

Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Corp. unveiled on Monday a prototype application for the popular iPhone that would allow users to access their electric vehicle’s battery level. In a demonstration test at the company research facility in Yokosuka, Japan, Nissan executives said that the application works by linking the electric cars’ electronic and IT system to the iPhone, allowing users to check on the power level of its Lithium Ion batteries. Electric vehicles use Lithium Ion batteries to power the car. The application, through the iPhone interface, will help owners to monitor... 

Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have release on Thursday images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a rare collision of space objects with the planet Jupiter. Called the “sharpest visible-light picture,” scientist explained the collision produces a phenomenon rarely seen or captured by any human being. Aside from NASA scientist, an amateur Australian stargazer was the lucky few who have witnessed personally the collision and expanding gash that followed. “The magnitude of the impact and the impression that it had left, while... 

World’s biggest software manufacturer Microsoft Corp. has released on Thursday the latest version of its Windows Operating System to computer manufacturers worldwide to allow a two month adjustment period before its official debut on October 22. In a statement posted in the official website of the company, Microsoft Windows 7 Team Leader Brandon LeBlanc said that the delivery was made two months earlier than its official release to give computer makers more time to integrate the software into computers and other high-end devices. The release to manufacturers or RTM is necessary... 

Computer giant Microsoft Corp and Internet firm Yahoo Inc are finally set to ink the long-awaited advertising agreement by next week, according to news reports. The search and online advertising deal between the two giants were delayed following a failed bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo in 2008. A regulatory restriction imposed on Yahoo to advertise with Google Inc has eventually led to the deal with the computer company. According to reports, Microsoft will pay Yahoo a huge sum of money in exchange for control over its search engine in advertising business. The deal, according... 

US telecommunication giant Sprint Nextel on Monday asked its Smartphone manufacturers to include Wi-Fi connectivity options and the latest version of BlackBerry Tour, which is set to be released in 2010. In a statement, Sprint director of business product marketing Jeff Clemow said that the move was part of the company’s continues development to give consumers everything they want into one device. He said that starting today; all Smartphones that the company will sell will include Wi-Fi capabilities. But Clemow said that the company did not give the manufacturers a specific... 

One of the world’s biggest language-learning software makers has filed a lawsuit against Internet giant Google for “illegally” allowing its trademark to serve as keywords in the company’s advertising search engine program called AdWords. In a statement, Rosetta Stone said that Google, through its AdWords program, allegedly used its name and other trademarks as keywords in its business search engine for other major businesses to use in sending paid advertisements to users online. The company also argued that consumers are being deceived and confused by Google’s search... 

Several anti-virus software companies all over the world have reported a massive cyber attacks on websites containing links to Michael Jackson and his death. Government experts believe that it is the same kind of malwares used to infiltrate the US and South Korean government websites. Reports said anti-virus software companies immediately traced links related to Jackson’s death. ‘The said links were used by attackers to snare online users to click and download harmful software, otherwise known as malwares. The same malware were also reportedly seen in website links... 

White House Spokesperson Nick Shapiro on Thursday revealed that the president’s official residence was among those targeted by a powerful sweeping cyber attack, which reportedly overwhelmed security features of major computer networks in the US and South Korea. The attack, which has lasted for days, have targeted other major computer networks including those of the Pentagon, the Nasdaq stock market, Homeland Security Department and State Department, The Washington Post, and  the New York Stock Exchange. The malware, which was earlier thought to be minor in nature, was actually...